books by Rocky Nook     books:       Canon EOS 40D: The Rocky Nook Manual Artur Landt Rocky Nook, 2008 Your new Canon EOS 40D arrives, gets unpacked, batteries are fully loaded, and you are ready to go. For the next few weeks you will be in experimental mode, trying out your camera "and you often end up with a basic and limited set of functions and modes, which you will use for the rest of the camera's life. Why? Because you, like most of us, are lazy, and because the manual that comes with the camera is too dense and confusing. Get the ...             Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with Inkjet Printers, 2nd Edition20 reviews Uwe Steinmueller, Juergen Gulbins Rocky Nook, 2008 Fine Art Printing, The Sophisticated Inkjet! This is a title on digital printing by Rockynook, a recently established publishing house specializing in books on computers, digital photography and image production. They distribute their titles through O'Reilly here in the US. They have strong ties to a German publishing house dpunct.verlag, whose specialty is computer science and digital photography. Most of the early titles published by ...             Scanning Negatives and Slides: Digitizing Your Photographic Archives15 reviews Sascha Steinhoff Rocky Nook, 2007 Excellent Book! I read this book cover to cover. As someone who has been using scanners since the 80286 days with a hand scanner, I liked to think I knew a thing or two about scanning and imaging editing. After I began to read this book, I quickly realized, I knew little about the intricacies of scanning photo's, and next to nothing about slide and negative scanning. This book comes with a CD with sample ...             The Photograph: Composition & Color Design9 reviews Harald Mante Rocky Nook, 2008 Return of an old classic This may seem to be a mutual back-scratching club, as I'm following a review by Tom Campbell, who also reviewed my own book, The Photographer's Eye. Nevertheless, I'm compelled to say that this is the welcome return of one of the classics of composition in photography. And excellently updated and revised, too. Mante methodically and sympathetically presents an exhaustive account of the formal ...             Closeup Shooting: A Guide to Closeup, Tabletop and Macro Photography12 reviews Cyrill Harnischmacher Rocky Nook, 2007 Excellent Book for the Budget-Constrained Closeup Shooting is filled with excellent advice for beginning photographers wanting to do close-up photography. Harnischmacher clearly explains the various types of close-up photography, ranging from 1:2 to about 6:1 image magnification. Unlike many photography writers, he seems to be aware that most of his readers are amateurs and do not have unlimited equipment budgets, so he takes care to ...             The HDRI Handbook: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers and CG Artists +DVD24 reviews Christian Bloch Rocky Nook, 2007 Informative, even for seasoned practitioners The principle was so obvious to me, and yet as soon I finished the study of this book, I realized just how limited my prior knowledge was. Apparently I did not knew about existing image standards, tools and about a fundamental importance of HDR (high dynamic range) imaging for digital photography as a superior way of preserving images. Foreword is by one of the top gurus in the discipline and ...             Take Your Photography to the Next Level: From Inspiration to Image21 reviews George Barr Rocky Nook, 2007 Enhance your understanding on photography I like the way of George's writing on photography, especially this books does not cover the technical stuffs like F-stop, shutter speed and etc. I like particularly on the explanation of some images may not take as intentionally. We may not think of the possible emotional impact that may create but certainly we conclude that the picture taken will suit your photograhic requirement, at least. ...             Mastering Landscape Photography: The Luminous Landscape Essays20 reviews Alain Briot Rocky Nook, 2006 A refreshing perspective that may change your life I own probably 40 books on photography. All were well researched before purchase, so all are good books. Of the 40, 10 were very valuable, 10 more were worth reading, the the other half were not. This is the first that I read cover to cover in just a couple of days. Some mentioned there is not a lot of information in the book. Well, it's not filled with tips and tricks and specifics of how to use ...             The Art of Black and White Photography: Techniques for Creating Superb Images in a Digital Workflow2 reviews Torsten Andreas Hoffmann Rocky Nook, 2008 A Hearty Welcome to Another Top German Photographer/Author This is a welcome volume for B&W photogs and a useful read for color photographers from another fine German photographer/author. This is Hoffmann's first instructional book to be published in English, although he has had numerous articles on image design/composition published in the magazine "Leica Fotographie International", or LFI, which, by the way, is not published by Leica-Camera GMBH. ...             Low Budget Shooting: Do It Yourself Solutions to Professional Photo Gear17 reviews Cyrill Harnischmacher Rocky Nook, 2007 Good advice if you have more time than money For the person with more time than money this book provides specific low-cost methods to make your own ancillary photography equipment. That being said, I should point out that the projects focus almost entirely on lighting and include softboxes, reflectors, and diffusers. In addition, most of the projects are focused on tabletop photography needs. That does not mean that they cannot be applied ...             Mastering the Nikon D300 Darrell Young Rocky Nook, 2008 Mastering the Nikon D300 by Nikonian Darrell Young provides a wealth of information and professional insights for owners of this powerful new camera. Each chapter explores the features and capabilities of the D300 in detail, surpassing basic user manuals by providing step-by-step menu setting adjustments coupled with illustrations and logical explanations for each option. Darrell Young's writing style allows the reader to follow directions in a ...             Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos10 reviews Stefan Seip Rocky Nook, 2007 Wonderous Book For Seeing the Cosmos Through The Lens 'Digital Astrophotography: A Guide to Capturing the Cosmos' is a wonderful guide for any hobbyists that enjoy looking up at the night sky and wishing to record the images they see for prosperity. Like all of the photography genre there is so much more to taking pictures than just pressing a button and aiming, no matter what the subject matter is. When you look up at the sky and all you see for ...             Digital Photography from the Ground Up: A Comprehensive Course4 reviews Juergen Gulbins Rocky Nook, 2008 A Digital Photography Primer This is a great book for the novice to intermediate digital photographer. There are no major issues that are not addressed. The book starts with chapters on equipment, with tips on choosing a camera. It then proceeds to chapters on composition, and a number of short sections on shooting topics such as animal photography, landscape photography, night photography, and others. Appropriately, the ...             Software Testing Foundations: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam, 2nd Edition3 reviews Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz, ... Rocky Nook, 2007 VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! Are you a software tester? If you are, then this book is definitely for you. Authors Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz and Hans Schaefer, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that offers basic knowledge that helps to achieve structured ad systematic evaluation and testing. Spillner, Linz and Schaefer, begin by discussing the basics of software testing. Then, the authors discuss which test ...             The Software Test Engineer's Handbook: A Study Guide for the ISTQB Test Analyst and Technical Analyst ... Graham Bath, Judy McKay Rocky Nook, 2008 There are a lot of books around covering functional testing techniques, but relatively few cover both functional and technical testing. This book will fill that gap. Authors Graham Bath and Judy McKay are core members of the ISTQB Working Party that created the new advanced level syllabus, which will be rolled out worldwide this year. This book brings both functional and technical aspects of testing into a coherent whole, which will benefit ...             Practical HDRI: High Dynamic Range Imaging for Photographers Jack Howard Rocky Nook, 2008 In this book, well-known expert Jack Howard leads you on an exploration into the exciting new frontier of High Dynamic Range Imaging. HDRI is a method to digitally capture, store, and edit the full luminosity range of a scene in ways that are just not possible with a single captured image. Jack's illustrated text is easy to understand as he takes you from the initial image capture and into the digital darkroom. Here is where you will learn ...             Digital Infrared Photography Cyrill Harnischmacher Rocky Nook, 2008 To record the "invisible light " has always been an intriguing and fascinating experiment. The infrared part of the light spectrum is outside the range of what the human eye can see, but with a digital camera, we are able to record only this "invisible light " while blocking the "visible " part. The results are often unusual, yet beautiful, renderings of otherwise fairly common scenes. Since as far back as the 1960 's artists have ...             Software Testing Practice: Test Management: A Study Guide for the Certified Tester Exam ISTQB Advanced Level Andreas Spillner, Tilo Linz, ... Rocky Nook, 2007 Aimed at experts who are dedicated to software testing, The Software Testing Process: Test Management addresses the major issues related to advanced, state-of-the-art test management. This book covers the syllabus required to pass the Certified Tester Examination - Advanced Level as defined by the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB). Software developers, project managers, quality managers, and team leaders will ...             GIMP 2 for Photographers: Image Editing with Open Source Software17 reviews Klaus Goelker Rocky Nook, 2006 The Gimp is no gimp The Gimp has evolved over the years, with pieces tacked on here and there to add features that help it keep pace with Photoshop (at a much lower "price.") Originally a program written by propeller-heads for propeller-heads, the program has actually become useful for photographers who don't have a computer-programming bent. Even so, the interface can be confusing, and that's where this excellent ...             Color Management in Digital Photography: Ten Easy Steps to True Colors in Photoshop7 reviews Brad Hinkel Rocky Nook, 2006 A must read for any serious digital photographer For years I struggled with how to deal with a simple problem of getting what I see on screen to be the same as what I print a photo lab. Color management shouldn't be such a difficult task though it usually is unless you know some preparation and steps you need to take. Most casual photographers don't give a thought, and photo ops do a pretty decent job producing printed photos that make us ...              search for books astrophotography, capturing, certificates, certified, composition, comprehensive, computing, creating, digitizing, exhibition, foundations, handbook, inspiration, landscape, luminous, management, mastering, negatives, photograph, photographers, photographic, photography, photoshop, practical, professional, rockynook, solutions, technical, techniques, yourself books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen DVD: Baron Blood Impressum - about us get your own shout box